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"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."
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"Many stories magnify a fact."
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"The scenario where the sprawling anti-hero gets his comeuppance and the champion walks off into the sunset with his arm around the prize, usually a woman, is a pleasing one. This media personification of what a hero is all about used to be the common norm. Examining past events can confirm this convoluted outlook that sees the baddie being portrayed as some sort of evil manifestation sent to cause havoc by any means possible."
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"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."
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"How many pages will it take to tell your story?"
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"Life is a book. We are writing the stories of our lives."
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"I'd prefer her story than history."
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"When you're telling a story, you're trying to connect to people in a particular way The way in which you guys have inhabited this world, this universe, has made you part of it, part of the story. You are living in Firefly. When I see you guys, I don't think the show is off the air. I don't think there's a show; I think that's what the world is like. The story is our lives."
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"Stories--individual stories, family stories, national stories--are what stitch together the disparate elements of human existence into a coherent whole. We are story animals."
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"Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense."
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"In the first play, the crisis is Thomas More. In the second it's Anne Boleyn. In the third book, and the third play, it's crisis every day, an overlapping series of only just negotiable horrors. It's climbing and climbing. Then a sudden abrupt fall - within days."
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"The universal narrator knows all and can enter a character's head any time he chooses."
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"It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say."
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"Understanding POV is essential, or ought to be."
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"The main advantage of the omniscient approach is that it's the easiest to handle. That's the major reason so many writers select it."
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"Vesco was always on the trail in search of money."
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"But if two's company, three's a crowd - and that demands the omniscient point of view."
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"But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it."
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